Hero dog basks in twilight years

Best friends: Ouyang and Bingjie. — China Daily/ANN

NANJING: Ouyang Honghong, a fire department dog handler in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, walks Bingjie, his 14-year-old English springer spaniel sniffer dog, on the hill at the back of the fire station where he works.

Bingjie can no longer participate in rescue operations with Ouyang due to his age, but when he was younger he helped save 13 people from the rubble of the deadly magnitude 8 earthquake that hit Sichuan province in 2008.